Kensei: Sacred Fist [PS1] - play as Steve Laettner

This is a playthrough using Steve Laettner in the PS1 game Kensei: Sacred Fist. Read on below for more information... Steve is the sub-boss for Allen, and he is an unlockable playable character. ===== HOW TO UNLOCK STEVE ===== Beat Normal Mode using Allen. ===== ABOUT STEVE ===== Steve is a world kickboxing champion and his fighting style is "Kickboxing". When he was 5 years old his mother died from illness and his father walked out on him. Over time, he eventually found sanctuary at a local kickboxing gym and from there he met a well-renowned kickboxing champion named James Carter, who eventually adopted Steve and would help him out from within his own time and accord. Inspired by Carter's fighting skills, Steve would learn from him, eventually developing into a great fighter, one that would go onto be a world kickboxing champion. Among the martial artists Steve has defeated, there were not much kickboxers within them, so he now seeks a Muay Thai fighter to test his own skills against. One night at a fighting event, he meets Kaiya Tsubaki who promises him the chance to fight a top underground Muay Thai fighter on the condition that he works as a bodyguard for him. ===== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ===== ---- Gameplay-wise he is based on Allen's fighting style. ---- The game is known as Bugi in Japan. ---- During gameplay against CPU opponents in Normal Mode, "FREE PLAY" blinks above the CPU character's lifebar. This is rather interesting because there isn't an Arcade version of the game. ===== ABOUT KENSEI SACRED FIST ===== This is a decent fighting game. There is a large repertoire of moves for each character, and the game depicts the various martial art styles very well. The game has a total roster of 23 characters, with 9 base characters being initially available when you begin the game, so there is a lot of unlocking to do. The unlockable characters share a moveset with one of the regular base characters, usually with some differences such as a few unique moves to themselves; some moves removed; slight changes to their strike ranges; and slight changes to their combo lengths. A cool feature of the gameplay is that Guarding consists of the characters avoiding/dodging the opponent strikes rather than blocking. The Japanese version of the game is called Bugi, where apart from the Japanese dialogue in the Command Lists and the Options screen, the game seems to be identical to it's Western counterpart. The game's graphics are good for the PS1's standards, and runs at a lovely 60fps.